Remote Sensing

Advances in Multi-Frequency GNSS High-Precision Positioning and Navigation Technology

edited by

Wang Gao

,

Rui Shang

and

Qing Zhao

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 406 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-frequency GNSS; high-precision positioning; ambiguity resolution; RTK/PPP/PPP-RTK; GNSS integrity; inter-frequency bias estimation/calibration; multi-frequency GNSS bias product estimation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)

Remote Sensing Technologies in Precision Agriculture: From Ground Vehicles to Aerial and Handheld Platforms

edited by Renato Herrig Furlanetto, Xu 'Kevin' Wang,

Luis Crusiol

and

Caiwang Zheng

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 391 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision agriculture; crop monitoring; AI techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Artificial Intelligence in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data Analysis

edited by

Xue Wang

,

Kun Tan

and

Haoyang Yu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 360 | Submission Open

Keywords: spectral-spatial representation learning; multimodal fusion & explainable AI; hyperspectral unmixing & mixed pixel analysis; intelligent remote sensing applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Point Cloud Data Analysis and Applications

edited by

Ruijin Ma

,

Tarig Ali

and

Maolin Chen

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 233 | Submission Open

Keywords: point clouds processing; geospatial digital twin modeling; data fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)

Advances in Sensor Design and Algorithm Development for Cloud Remote Sensing

edited by Zhonghui Tan, Weihua Ai and

Di Di

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 178 | Submission Open

Keywords: clouds and precipitation; sensor design; algorithm; radar simulator; satellite simulator; extreme weather

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

Advances in Forest Degradation and Deforestation Monitoring with AI and Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Ran Meng

,

Huaguo Huang

and

Huabing Huang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 175 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation dynamics; vegetation structure parameters; multi-source remote sensing; artificial intelligence; radiative transfer model; smart forestry

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing and Smart Forestry (Third Edition)

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submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 162 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; smart forestry; intelligent forestry; forestry technology; virtual reality; artificial intelligence; image processing; remote sensing classification; LiDAR application in forestry

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecological Remote Sensing)

Machine Learning and GeoAI for Remote Sensing Environmental Monitoring (2nd Edition)

edited by Haomin Yu and

Zhiyu Jiang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 158 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatio-temporal analysis; multi-source data fusion; environmental monitoring; predictive analytics; air quality monitoring; cloud pattern recognition; atmospheric remote sensing; transportation impact assessment; traffic-related air pollution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing for Natural and Urban Scene Understanding and Applications

edited by

Yufu Zang

, Jinhu Wang, Yueqian Shen,

Haiyan Guan

and

Dong Chen

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 147 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; point clouds; 3D scene understanding; object extraction; classification; environmental monitoring; urban planning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Advances in the Remote Sensing of Crop Phenology and Production Monitoring Under Environmental Constraints

edited by Xin Zhao,

Jianxiu Shen

and Sanai Li

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 137 | Submission Open

Keywords: crop phenology; crop production; environmental constraints; agricultural remote sensing; algorithm development; time series analysis; precision agriculture; yield prediction; crop monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Remote Sensing Advances in Urban Traffic Monitoring (Second Edition)

edited by

Wiesław Pamuła

and

Teresa Pamuła

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 104 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban traffic monitoring; traffic data fusion; road network congestion; UAVs; image processing; road infrastructure; deep learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing Applications in Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF)

edited by

Ali Nadir Arslan

,

Katarzyna Dabrowska-Zielinska

and

Jose Manuel Álvarez-Martínez

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 29410 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use; land-use change; and forestry (LULUCF); GHG inventories; state-of-the-art LULUCF monitoring and reporting and perspectives; remote sensing in LULUCF monitoring and reporting and verification; remote sensing-based applications and databases for LULUCF stakeholders; national land-use/land-cover monitoring; classification and detection of changing land use/land cover; data fusion and combination for LULUCF; synergy of remote sensing and modeling techniques of carbon stocks; copernicus program

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecological Remote Sensing)

Oceans from Space V

edited by

Vittorio Barale

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 26342 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean observations; marine environment; oceanographic missions; satellite; and sensors; data cal-val; processing algorithms; and model assimilation; sea parameters and processes; bio-geo-chemical cycles; and ecological status.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)

BDS/GNSS for Earth Observation (Third Edition)

edited by

Gino Dardanelli

and Chen Wang

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 161 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS; NRTK; PPP; geodesy; geohazards; GNSS meteorology; GNSS ionosphere; GNSS reflectometry; GNSS small satellite; GNSS for autonomous space navigation; GNSS in precision farming (PF); GNSS interference detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)

New Advances of Space Gravimetry in Climate and Hydrology Studies

edited by

José Darrozes

,

Guillaume Ramillien

and Lucia Seoane

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 139 | Submission Open

Keywords: GRACE; GRACE-FO; global hydrology; extreme hydro-climatic events; ocean circulation; coastal ocean model; groundwater; warning systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Remote Sensing for Civil and Environmental Applications

edited by

Saeid Homayouni

,

Hossein Aghababaei

,

Alireza Tabatabaeenejad

and

Benyamin Hosseiny

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1347 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; microwave remote sensing; PolSAR/PolInSAR; tomographic SAR; backscattering modeling; environmental monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Remote Sensing of Land Surface Temperature: Retrieval, Modeling, and Applications

edited by Zihan Liu,

Jin Ma

, Kangning Li and Lluís Pérez-Planells

submission deadline 13 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8505 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal infrared remote sensing; land surface temperature (LST); urban thermal environment; climate change; urbanization; agriculture application

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

GeoAI and EO Big Data Driven Advances in Earth Environmental Science

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submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 21 articles | Viewed by 54025 | Submission Open

Keywords: earth observation big data; GeoAI; multisource/multimodal data fusion; long time-series analysis; retrievals of environmental variables; postprocessing of environmental variables retrievals; monitoring; evaluation; and prediction; land cover land use; natural hazards; high-impact events

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Photogrammetry Meets AI

edited by

Fabio Remondino

and

Rongjun Qin

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 47974 | Submission Open

Keywords: photogrammetry; machine/deep learning; structure from motion; 3D reconstruction; NeRF; data integration and fusion; quantitative analyses and comparisons

(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)

Weather and Climate Extremes Monitoring Based on Remote Sensing Methods

edited by

Yuriy Kuleshov

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 29337 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; weather and climate extremes; Asia– Oceania; climate risk assessments; natural hazards; tropical cyclones; floods; droughts

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Big Earth Data and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Multi-Objectives Comprehensive Evaluation

edited by Lanwei Zhu,

Lei Wang

,

Chunlin Huang

and

Min Chen

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 27525 | Submission Open

Keywords: big earth data; SDGs; multi-objective comprehensive evaluation; remote sensing; geospatial analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Applications of Remote Sensing in Landscape Archaeology

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submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 16685 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape archaeology; remote sensing big data; settlement ecology; environmental archaeology; land use land cover; GIS

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Technologies for Heritage Knowledge and Preservation: 3D Point Cloud Modelling, GIS, HBIM, Simulation, Immersive Experiences

edited by

Daniel Antón

,

José L. Amaro-Mellado

,

Silvana Bruno

and

Marinos Ioannides

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 12901 | Submission Open

Keywords: 3D point cloud modelling; historic building information modelling; geographic information system; terrestrial laser scanning; unmanned aerial vehicle; structure-from-motion; semantic segmentation; data fusion; simulation and non-destructive testing; game engine

Application of Remote Sensing to Flood and Drought Analysis, Monitoring and Risk Management

edited by

Andrés Navarro

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 12049 | Submission Open

Keywords: precipitation; floods; droughts; extreme precipitation events; natural hazards; hydrology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing and GIS-Based Innovative Techniques for Confronting Land Subsidence and Landslides

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Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos

and

Nikolaos Stathopoulos

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 10582 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; GIS; land subsidence; landslides; modeling; machine learning; VGI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Recent Progress in Understanding Global Sea Level Rise Using Space and Earth Observations

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, Jean Philippe Montillet and

Rui Fernandes

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10224 | Submission Open

Keywords: sea level change; tide gauge; satellite altimetry; GNSS; GRACE; satellite gravity; global geodetic observing system; big data; artificial intelligence; environmental loading model

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Stereoscopic Remote Sensing of Air Pollutants: Emission, Formation, and Transport

edited by

Chengxin Zhang

,

Chi Li

and

Chengzhi Xing

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9266 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite remote sensing; ground-based remote sensing; atmospheric pollutants; source analysis; greenhouse gases

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) in Remote Sensing

edited by

Xian Sun

, Wanxuan Lu, Lingqiao Liu and Shucheng You

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8963 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing foundation models with GeoAI; deep neural networks combining RS properties or geospatial knowledge; robust architectures for multiple geospatial tasks; GeoAI for remote sensing forecasting tasks; high-quality and large-scale datasets for remote sensing foundation models; applications such as smart cities; land-cover and ocean observation; environmental monitoring; and sustainable development

(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Vertical Profile—Air Quality, Pollution and Aerosol Optical Properties

edited by Min Xie,

Jane Liu

and Bingliang Zhuang

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7097 | Submission Open

Keywords: atmospheric vertical profile; aerosol optical properties; aerosol transportation; aerosol radiative effect; aerosol-cloud microphysics effects; boundary layer pollution; remote sensing retrieval algorithms; machine learning applications in remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

Dynamic Monitoring of Forest Resources Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Fernando José Aguilar

,

Flor Álvarez-Taboada

and

Manuel Ángel Aguilar

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7076 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source remote sensing data; dynamic monitoring of forest resources; data fusion; machine learning; deep learning; OBIA; precision forestry; multi-temporal remote sensing data; aboveground biomass and carbon stock; near real-time (NRT) forest monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Advanced HRWS Spaceborne SAR: System Design and Signal Processing

edited by

, Daiyin Zhu,

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and Yashi Zhou

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5462 | Submission Open

Keywords: spaceborne synthetic aperture radar; HRWS SAR system design; high-resolution SAR imaging method; ambiguity suppression; SAR waveform design; beamforming

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Applications of Remote Sensing in the Monitoring of the Mountain Cryosphere

edited by Pedro Fidel Espín-López, Massimiliano Barbolini and

Andreas J. Dietz

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4681 | Submission Open

Keywords: snow cover; glaciers; remote sensing; permafrost; snow avalanches; climate change; water management; hyperspectral; black carbon

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Applications of AI and Remote Sensing in Urban Systems II

edited by

Ahmed Mustafa

and

Andreas Rienow

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4542 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use/cover change; urban systems; image processing; google earth engine; thermal remote sensing; open data; big data; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)

Innovative Geospatial Information and Earth Observation (GEO) Techniques for Sustainable Development

edited by Chao Yang, Jie Chen,

Chaogui Kang

, Liang Hong and

Phaedon C. Kyriakidis

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4438 | Submission Open

Keywords: earth observation; geospatial sensor web; citizen sensing; sustainable transport; land use change; urban resilience; nature-based solutions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)

Machine Learning Approaches for Semantic and Instance Segmentation in Remote Sensing

edited by

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submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4162 | Submission Open

Keywords: semantic segmentation; instance segmentation; object detection; hyperspectral imagery; supervised machine learning; deep learning; feature extraction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Image Fusion and Object Detection Using Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Data

edited by Bin Yang, Xin Ye and Jing Li

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3588 | Submission Open

Keywords: image fusion; object detection; multi-modal data; deep learning; benchmark dataset; remote sensing data analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Problem-Driven Geospatial Data Acquisition, Tools and Applications in Earth Observation

edited by

Artan Hysa

,

Pai-Hui Hsu

and

Yongze Song

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3511 | Submission Open

Keywords: geospatial technology; geospatial data acquisition; geographic information system (GIS); spatial analysis; earth observation; geospatial AI; big data analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing for Geospatial Science)

Advances in Remote Sensing and Digital Twin Technologies for Transportation Infrastructure

edited by

Zhen Liu

and

Xingyu Gu

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3116 | Submission Open

Keywords: transportation infrastructure; road extraction; traffic network; transportation infrastructure; remote sensing; InSAR; AI; digital twin

(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)

Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in Environmental and Engineering Applications (Second Edition)

edited by

Wojciech Drzewiecki

and

Antoni Rzonca

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1711 | Submission Open

Keywords: photogrammetry; remote sensing; laser scanning; close-range sensors; UAV sensors; airborne sensors; satellite sensors; data integration and synergy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing for Risk Assessment, Monitoring and Recovery of Fires

edited by Xikun Hu,

Ioannis Gitas

and Puzhao Zhang

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1437 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; geoscience and earth observation; artificial intelligence; machine learning; forest fires; post-fire assessment; visualization and mapping

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Advances in Remote Sensing Observation of Aerosol Properties and Assessment of Their Effects

edited by

Kaitao Li

,

Xingfeng Chen

,

Lei Li

and Donghui Li

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1012 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerosol optical; physical; and chemical properties; remote sensing observations; simulation and inversion; environmental; health; and climate assessment; spatiotemporal distribution; contributing factor analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

Application of Artificial Intelligence in Land Use and Land Cover Mapping—3rd Version

edited by

Sawaid Abbas

, Janet Nichol,

Faisal M. Qamer

and Hamid Mehmood

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 313 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use and land cover (LULC) mapping; artificial intelligence (AI) in remote sensing; machine learning and deep learning; cloud computing (GEE; AWS); object detection in remote sensing images; hyperspectral and multispectral data analysis; change detection and monitoring; big data analytics in Earth observation; generative AI for geospatial applications; large language models (LLMs) for geospatial intelligence; urban morphology and landscape analysis; sustainable development goals (SDGs) and AI

(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)

Coastal Dynamics Monitoring Using Remote Sensing Data

edited by Huaguo Zhang, Wenting Cao and

Nurjannah Nurdin

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 235 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastline; time series analysis; coastal erosion; coastal disaster; artificial intelligence; coastal flood; blue carbon; coastal vegetation; intertidal flat; bathymetric mapping; coastal wetland habitat; coastal management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Fifth Anniversary of “AI Remote Sensing” Section

edited by

Lefei Zhang

and Yushi Chen

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning and deep learning for remote sensing; optical/multispectral/hyperspectral/SAR image processing; target detection; anomaly detection; and change detection; multi-modal remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)

Application of Satellite Data for Lightning Mapping

edited by

Adonis Ferreira Raiol Leal

and

Dongshuai Li

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 128 | Submission Open

Keywords: lightning; lightning climatology; spaceborne sensors; forecasting; nowcasting; GLM; LMI; LI; lightning mapping

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

Earth Observation Satellites for Soil Moisture Monitoring

edited by

Jaromir Krzyszczak

and

Anna Siedliska

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1872 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; soil moisture; hydrology; agriculture; meteorology; climate change; drought monitoring; algorithm development; data validation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biogeosciences Remote Sensing)

Applications and Advances of Remote Sensing Technologies in Assisting Landslide Investigation, Monitoring and Assessment

edited by

Chun Zhu

, Han Bao, Daoyuan Tan,

Luqi Wang

, Zhanbo Cheng and

Tomaž Podobnikar

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 155 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing technologies; landslide investigation; landslide mapping; landslide deformation forecasting; landslide runout modelling; numerical simulation; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Remote Sensing Application in Coastal Geomorphology and Processes II

edited by

Cristina Ponte Lira

and

Ana Nobre Silva

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4048 | Submission Open

Keywords: geomorphology of the coastal zone; coastal hydrodynamics and morphodynamics; beach and dune processes; oceanographic forcing; coastal processes and management; remote sensing applications in the coastal zone

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)

Multi-platform and Multi-modal Remote Sensing Data Fusion with Advanced Deep Learning Techniques (Second Edition)

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submission deadline 28 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 19684 | Submission Open

Keywords: multispectral and hyperspectral data fusion; hyperspectral and LiDAR data fusion; pansharpening or thermal sharpening; optical and SAR data fusion; optical and LiDAR data fusion; novel benchmark; multi-platform or multi-modal datasets; advanced deep learning algorithm/architectures/theory transfer; multitask; few-shot and meta learning; attention mechanism and transformer; convolutional neural networks/graph convolutional networks; scene/object classification and segmentation; target detection/tracking; geological mapping

Advances in Oceanic Dynamics by SAR and Numeric Model in Tropical Cyclone

edited by Maurizio Migliaccio, Jian Shi,

Weizeng Shao

and Xianbin Zhao

submission deadline 28 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10380 | Submission Open

Keywords: tropical cyclone; ocean dynamic; target detection; SAR; remote sensing; ocean modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)

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